2. I was talking to someone who has played it on Saturday and he said that AoC DOES have a "mentor" system like City of Heroes, so that people of vastly different levels can still play together and have fun. I don't know the details but he said it worked pretty well. Awesome!

I'd love to do an initiation LAN, but I'm busy Friday/Saturday the 2 weeks after the wedding, and the Friday on the 3rd week after. The soonest I could do a LAN would be Sunday the 8th of June, if you're up for an unorthodox LAN day (I am). If you want to wait until Saturday the 21st, that works too!